Firefox add-on claims that at every visit I make to CC, the site informs several other sites....

[Manonabike]

The add-on Collusion claims that at every visit I make to CC, CC reports to: facebook.com, twitter.com, wordpress.com, google.com, viglink.com and photobucket.com that I'm visiting cyclechat.net

On the other hand....for instance, the dailymail.com reports to: and.co.uk, scorecardsearch.com.... I would expect reporting to more sites from them.

Just to say, that I have not visited any of the sites in question.... only cyclechat. In otherwords, re-started the pc, firefox and then loaded CC and requested the report from Collusion.

 

[Maz]

Er-hem, as long as it's only visits to CC, I really don't mind...

 

[qwiksilver]

most note worthy is in the bottom left of pic
"This add-on is still in develpoment and is not entirely accurate"
maybe even totally wrong

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I guess I'll have to stop looking at that porn then....

 

[cyberknight]

Do you run the no script add on for firefox ?

 

[_aD]

When loading this page, the following non-cyclechat URLs are also called. Google, TickerFactory, Viglink, Twitter, Facebook, UserTrust and Entrust all know about it. They know the cyclechat page, your IP address and your browser's user-agent string.

Viglink set a cookie that expires 1st March 2022
Twitter set a cookie that expires 4th March 2014
Google set a cookie that expires 3rd March 2014
All three of the above will then be able to tie your visit to this site with any other sites they have their thumbs in,

http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js
http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmwv=5.2.5&utms=1&utmn=1323305997&utmhn=www.cyclechat.net&utmcs=UTF-8&utmsr=1280x1024&utmvp=1263x909&utmsc=24-bit&utmul=en-gb&utmje=0&utmfl=11.1%20r102&utmdt=Firefox%20add-on%20claims%20that%20at%20every%20visit%20I%20make%20to%20CC%2C%20the%20site%20informs%20several%20other%20sites....%20%7C%20Cycle%20Chat%20Cycling%20Forums&utmhid=1525300806&utmr=0&utmp=%2Fthreads%2Ffirefox-add-on-claims-that-at-every-visit-i-make-to-cc-the-site-informs-several-other-sites.96896%2F&utmac=UA-19250228-1&utmcc=__utma%3D8758311.1879052602.1330802298.1330802298.1330802298.1%3B%2B__utmz%3D8758311.1330802298.1.1.utmcsr%3D(direct)%7Cutmccn%3D(direct)%7Cutmcmd%3D(none)%3B&utmu=q~
http://tickers.tickerfactory.com/ezt/t/wITaO3y/exercise.png
http://cdn.viglink.com/api/vglnk.js
http://platform.twitter.com:443/
http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js
http://ocsp.usertrust.com/
http://api.viglink.com/api/ping?format=jsonp&key=3d27228e40eb21aded5c8db895b67eea&loc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyclechat.net%2Fthreads%2Ffirefox-add-on-claims-that-at-every-visit-i-make-to-cc-the-site-informs-several-other-sites.96896%2F&v=1&jsonp=vglnk_jsonp_13308022990580
http://ocsp.entrust.net/
http://ssl.gstatic.com/s2/oz/images/stars/po/Publisher/sprite2.png
https://plusone.google.com:443/
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.1330467312.html
http://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyclechat.net%2Fthreads%2Ffirefox-add-on-claims-that-at-every-visit-i-make-to-cc-the-site-informs-several-other-sites.96896%2F&callback=twttr.receiveCount
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/images/t.gif?_=1330802299728&count=horizontal&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyclechat.net%2Fthreads%2Ffirefox-add-on-claims-that-at-every-visit-i-make-to-cc-the-site-informs-several-other-sites.96896%2F&size=m&text=Firefox%20add-on%20claims%20that%20at%20every%20visit%20I%20make%20to%20CC%2C%20the%20site%20informs%20several%20other%20sites....&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyclechat.net%2Fthreads%2Ffirefox-add-on-claims-that-at-every-visit-i-make-to-cc-the-site-informs-several-other-sites.96896%2F&type=share&twttr_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyclechat.net%2Fthreads%2Ffirefox-add-on-claims-that-at-every-visit-i-make-to-cc-the-site-informs-several-other-sites.96896%2F&twttr_widget=1&twttr_li=0&twttr_pid=v1%3A1330802299897383899362
https://plusone.google.com:443/
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=recommend&channel_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs-static.ak.fbcdn.net%2Fconnect%2Fxd_proxy.php%3Fversion%3D3%23cb%3Df2d539d43266dc2%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.cyclechat.net%252Ff23ef4d3fb5603c%26relation%3Dparent.parent%26transport%3Dpostmessage&colorscheme=light&extended_social_context=false&font=trebuchet%20ms&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyclechat.net%2Fthreads%2Ffirefox-add-on-claims-that-at-every-visit-i-make-to-cc-the-site-informs-several-other-sites.96896%2F&layout=standard&locale=en_US&node_type=link&sdk=joey&show_faces=true&width=500
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/yU/r/koEysSTBwor.js
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/y7/r/ql9vukDCc4R.png
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v1/yV/r/yT55eVZkFGZ.css
https://s-static.ak.fbcdn.net:443/

 

[Manonabike]

most note worthy is in the bottom left of pic
"This add-on is still in develpoment and is not entirely accurate"
maybe even totally wrong

Quite right, maybe even not reporting all sites

Do you run the no script add on for firefox ?

Yes, I do.

 

[xxmimixx]

I got that add on too but am getting confused, how do I kill the unwanted connections??

 

[Manonabike]

I got that add on too but am getting confused, how do I kill the unwanted connections??

They are sites that are tracking you. When you load Cyclechat.net, the site alerts all the other sites that you are visiting Cyclechat.... that is the method they used to tracking your internet browsing. That is the annoying part for me, I did not expect Cyclechat to be sending information about my visit to facebook.com, twitter.com, wordpress.com, google.com, viglink.com and photobucket.com

 

[Fat B'stard]

So the question I have is can it be stopped and will using IE make a difference

 

[Scoosh]

Thread moved here for Admin's comments ...

 

[ultraviolet]

in the firefox settings theres a button for only excepting cookies from sites you visit and not third person sites/tracking cookies, this might help.

or just unistall the add-on maybe

 

[Manonabike]

in the firefox settings theres a button for only excepting cookies from sites you visit and not third person sites/tracking cookies, this might help.

or just unistall the add-on maybe

 

[Shaun]

CycleChat isn't "informing" on you at all - like most modern web sites we "connect" with other web sites and services and therefore download information from them or make doorways for members to use their services.

Facebook and Twitter are there because we have buttons for you to Tweet and Like/Recommend threads and posts on CycleChat - so the URL for correctly doing that is embedded with the CC pages. We're not "giving" them information about your visit we are simply pre-loading the connection in case you want to use it. Nothing is passed to them if you don't use it, and only your IP address is when you do.

Wordpress has been installed for me to experiment with transferring the blog data. It connects back to the main Wordpress domain to check for updates etc. but the only cookie data it sets is local to CC (to save your login username) so again - nothing about you is passed back to Wordpress.

Google and Viglink are advertiser partners that I use to help fund CC. Both use tracking cookies in the same way they do for any other site you visit. This is a simple text file that is downloaded to your browser cache and is used to track your actions in relation to any adverts you click on (and to combat click-fraud). The ONLY thing they get from your visit here is your IP address (which is freely available to any site you visit anyway). There is no other connection, no access to our user database, no emails, names, contact information or anything at all that can identify you.

NONE OF YOUR PERSONAL OR CC ACCOUNT DATA IS EVER PASSED TO **ANY** THIRD PARTY WHATSOEVER - and this will ALWAYS be the case.

Just thought I'd make that perfectly clear.

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[Manonabike]

I never thought you were passing on personal or CC account details.

Passing on the IP address is enough for site such as google or other sites to track a person's browsing. If you pass my IP address to them and then I go to the BBC, Chain Reaction, etc and they do the same then google can create a profile of my Internet browsing which they can use to sell advertising, etc..... huge profits are made with IP tracking.... That is the only problem that I have with it. Lots of websites pass on this information so it's hard to prevent this practice. However, it's rather disappointing that CC does it too, I'd like to think we are a friendly community looking out for each other - I guess that is not really the case.

It was on the news this week that Twitter has sold every single tweet ever written.....